V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. F. Kovalev, “Relativistic coulomb explosion of spherical microplasma”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2011, Volume 94, Issue 2,Pages <nobr>101

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PLASMA, HYDRO- AND GAS DYNAMICS

Relativistic coulomb explosion of spherical microplasma

V. Yu. Bychenkov^a, V. F. Kovalev^b

^a P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
^b M. V. Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The nonlinear problem of the expansion of a uniform spherical cluster, which consists of ions with a charge sufficient to accelerate relativistic energies has been solved precisely. It has been shown that relativistic non-linearity is responsible for the formation of an expanding shell-type structure. The space-time and energy characteristics of the relativistically exploding cluster have been found.

Received: 16.05.2011